Our Ethos

Premium luxury products that would feel at home in a vintage sports car in the French Riviera, a café racer in the desert, or a wood cabin in the Yukon. Ides of Light seeks to create quality, beautiful goods that hint at a subtle luxury without the need for over-embellishment.

Eco-conscious

Ides of Light takes its inspiration from nature and wildlife which is why we are dedicated to protect our environment so we all can continue to enjoy its wonder and positive affect on our well being.

A percentage of every sale is donated to nature conservation

We have chosen to help fund WWF, one of the worlds leading conservation organizations, by donating a percentage of our sales. The WWF does work across many areas of environmental conservation, from fresh water and oceans to forests and animal habitats.

Sustainable ingredients

In addition to donating to organizations that are working to protect nature, animals and the environment; Ides of Light work in house to reduce contributing to the problem. We are dedicated to using sustainable ingredients. This means using natural ingredients when possible as well as not using natural resources that are endangered such as the Indian sandalwood forests.

No animal testing of products or ingredients

Ides of Light is dedicated to avoiding the unnecessary cruelty of testing our products or ingredients on animals. Currently the only animal we test on is our founder, Michael Cates.

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

-Theodore Roosevelt

A percentage of every sale is donated to nature conservation

We have chosen to help fund WWF, one of the worlds leading conservation organizations, by donating a percentage of our sales. The WWF does work across many areas of environmental conservation, from fresh water and oceans to forests and animal habitats.

Sustainable ingredients

In addition to donating to organizations that are working to protect nature, animals and the environment; Ides of Light work in house to reduce contributing to the problem. We are dedicated to using sustainable ingredients. This means using natural ingredients when possible as well as not using natural resources that are endangered such as the Indian sandalwood forests.

No animal testing of products or ingredients

Ides of Light is dedicated to avoiding the unnecessary cruelty of testing our products or ingredients on animals. Currently the only animal we test on is our founder, Michael Cates.

Want to do more to protect our environment and animal habitats?

Along with feeling great about a donation being made with your Ides of Light purchase, there are many additional ways you can contribute and help protect the environment for animals, yourself and future generations.

Donate to the National Forest Foundation to help plant a tree

Planting trees helps provide habitat and helps reduce the effects of climate change. You can donate to the National Forest Foundation to help plant a tree.

National Forest Service Plant-a-Tree program

The National Forest Service has a Plant-a-Tree program where you can help build the health of our forests.

Become a member of the American Forest organization

Donate or give the gift of trees via the American Forest organization

Become a member of the Arbor Day Foundation

Get 10 free trees when you become a member of the Arbor Day Foundation

A Refined Ruggedness

Ides of Light is a premium fragrance brand that brings quality, unique products for the individual with a sophisticated sense of style and a passion for nature. Made for the individual looking to develop their own style, it is carefully curated with a quality and palette you can trust.

The general design philosophy behind Ides of Light is a blend of elegant clean lines with a rugged utilitarian influence. We wanted to create a style that is a blend of industrial and organic with a hint of a darker edge.

Ides of Light is built for the artist, entrepreneur, fighter, poet, adventurer, risk taker. Free spirits not afraid to go on their own.

Creating Experience

We are working on developing a shopping experience designed specifically for independent spirits and how we shop.

  • Easy access to information and details
  • Simple and efficient online shopping and checkout so you can avoid the dreaded experience of a department store perfume counter
  • Select retail stockists that cater specifically to a great shopping experience.

Creating Experience

We are working on developing a shopping experience designed specifically for independent spirits and how we shop. This means:

• Easy access to information and details

• Simple and efficient online shopping and checkout so you can avoid the dreaded experience of a department store perfume counter

• Select retail stockists that cater specifically to a great shopping experience.

Michael Cates

Michael is the Founder and Creative Director behind Ides of Light.

I really like the power of scents and their strong emotional tie to memories and experiences. So it struck me to launch Ides of Light with a scent.  I liked that the abstract nature of scent could really help convey the idea of what I was trying to start.  That maybe a scent could be the foundation of what Ides of Light is about.”